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The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America.(Book review)
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Urban History Review
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March 22, 2008
- Author:
- Harris, Richard
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Teaford, Jon C. The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 306 pp, illustrations, notes, index. ISBN: 0-231-13372-3; paper: ISBN: 0-231-13373-1.
No historian does a better job than Jon Teaford of writing overviews of periods or issues in U.S. urban history. His latest offering, The Metropolitan Revolution, is typical: accessible and balanced, it is a concise survey of what has been happening to U.S. metropolitan areas since 1945. For anyone who is looking for such a factual survey--and this is likely to include urbanists in a variety of fields and disciplines--this book can be strongly recommended, with two ...